I am Centre co-director (Digital Cultures), and Associate Dean (Research Cultures) in the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences. In the Edinburgh Futures Institute, I am co-director of the MSc in Education Futures. I also teach on the MSc in Digital Education, and I am a senior fellow of the Higher Education Academy. My research interests include education and cultural heritage futures, speculative methods, online distance education, digital cultural heritage learning, open education and digital cultures. I supervise masters and PhD students in these and related areas.
Professor Jen Ross
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New Project announcement: Artificial Intelligence & Humanities (101)
We are delighted to announce that Centre colleagues Serdar Abaci and Jen Ross are partners to the Una Europa Seed Funding project “Artificial Intelligence & Humanities (101): Developing a Humanities Syllabus for AI & the Digital at Una Europa”.
Recordings available: Digital Education Futures Seminar Series “Autonomy, Algorithms, and Agency”
Watch the recordings of the Digital Education Futures Seminar Series “Autonomy, Algorithms, and Agency”.
Learning Curves: Autumn 2024 Edinburgh Futures Institute Events
The Edinburgh Futures Institute autumn 2024 events season is starting soon: Learning Curves features 20 live events, free and open to all, examining the future of education. Centre colleagues led on the development of several of the events.
New project: Infrastructure Futures for Digital Cultural Heritage
Funded by the Creative Informatics AHRC Creative Cluster programme, this project imagines possible futures for Digital Cultural Heritage infrastructure given current conversations regarding audience, resourcing, governance, and stages of technological development.
Graduation: MSc Education Futures
On Friday 1 December, the first cohort of students graduated from the MSc in Education Futures, which is offered through the Edinburgh Futures Institute
Teaching Scotland article 'AI:opportunity or threat?'
Dr Jen Ross and Dr Ben Williamson are referenced in the latest Teaching Scotland publication.
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Projects
Artificial Intelligence & Humanities (101): Developing a Humanities Syllabus for AI & the Digital at Una Europa
Centre colleagues Serdar Abaci and
Towards embedding responsible AI in the school system: co-creation with young people
Bridging the divide between principles of explainability, fairness and privacy as they apply to educational AI, and the values, hopes and concerns of young people when faced with emerging technologies.
AI futures for Scottish education
AI Futures for Scottish education addresses an urgent need to address the rapid emergence of generative AI technologies, and to consider the ethical and educational issues raised as teachers and students experiment with its capabilities
Infrastructure Futures for Digital Cultural Heritage
What do we mean when we talk about infrastructure for Digital Cultural Heritage research? How can we get a better understanding of current priorities, concerns and hopes by imagining and collectively scrutinising possibilities for the future?
Higher Education Futures
Eight speculative scenarios exploring the future of higher education teaching.
Digital Footprints and Search Pathways
Working with National Collections in Scotland during Covid-19 lockdown to design future online provision.